Summary: The California Angels are a struggling baseball team praying to win a pennant. Their luck changes as their biggest fan, 11-year-old Roger, begins giving the coach tips from a real live angel. The team not only climbs back into the pennant race, but learns to believe in themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Angels 2002Summary: The morning of Tunde's graduation party and things have already begun to unravel. Tunde has managed to alienate his sister, Simisola. His older brother, Ade, persistently plagues him with criticism, and their mother has started drinking again. Unbeknownst to most, Tunde has orchestrated the return of his long estranged father, resurrecting unresolved family anguish against the backdrop of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AUGSummary: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FEN RATED PG13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Fences 2017Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FANCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV FANSummary: Based on the true story of Kansas City contractor Bruce Murakami. On November 16, 1998, Bruce's wife Cindy and daughter Chelsea are killed in a street accident by drag-racing teenager Justin Suarez. Despite the admonitions of Bruce's surviving sons Brody and Josh, and those of family friend Melissa, the bitter, vengeance-driven Murakami hires attorney Erin Teller to see to it that Suarez is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CROSummary: Rio bravo : On one side is an army of gunmen dead-set on springing a murderous cohort from jail. On the other is Sheriff John T. Chance and his two deputies: one a recovering drunkard, the other a crippled codger. Also in their ragtag ranks are an unseasoned, trigger-happy youth and a woman with a past-- and her eye on Chance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RioSummary: Doug Holloway's life is in complete disarray. He is on the verge of financial and marital ruin. He embarks on a journey to find his birth father. Their bond strengthens as Doug helps his father on his dying quest to explain the existence of God through the use of science. Both men will see if they can find what they are really looking for. A tribute to the power of family and discovering the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Theory 2010Summary: A second-generation petty thief arranges to get out of prison to spend time with his ailing son by taking on a job with his father to pay back the syndicate that arranged his release.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOR RATED RSummary: Creed: Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: SDS 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRESummary: Diagnosed with a fatal condition, Frankie Carver is released from prison after serving nineteen years of hard time. With only a short time left to live, Frankie must desperately try to make amends with the son he left behind while he plots a bloody course of revenge, tracking down his old gang to make them pay one by one.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SCOSummary: Self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for money and power. Working with his "son and partner," 11-year-old H.W., he becomes a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. His only challenge comes from a young, ambitious charismatic preacher, Eli Sunday.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THESummary: Beck is anxious to retire from his bounty hunter work, but his boss, Walker, has one more "retrieval" job for him. He sends Beck into the Brazilian rainforest to bring back his wayward son, Travis. Travis is there looking for a gold statue, which he could sell for millions if he finds it. The powerful Hatcher owns the area's huge mine, and feels that anything found in the area is his property....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After finding a vintage Lazy Boy recliner online, just like the one that used to grace his childhood living room, a man decides to buy the chair and deliver it to his father as a surprise birthday gift.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his sons, he also moves...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOTSummary: A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PlSummary: Aging rocker Danny Collins can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager uncovers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANSummary: Michael (or Fresh as he's known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a half-way house for children without their parents. His father has become a street bum, but is still there if Fresh requires his 'street' knowledge. Fresh aspires to live the good life but his sister's prostitution for the drug heavies along with the senseless murder of friends push him to re-evaluate his life. He then...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FRESummary: "Jonny Quest" gets an irreverent but affectionate spoofing in this animated series chronicling the sometimes hair-raising adventures of Hank and Dean Venture, the not-especially-bright twin sons of pill-popping "super-scientist" Dr. Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture. Luckily (for the most part), their safety is overseen by a security guard who uses his license to kill every chance he gets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VENGleeson, Domhnall
Summary: When author A.A. Milne creates the Winnie-the-Pooh books after World War I, their success comes at a price for the author and his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Goodbye 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOO RATED PGSummary: Back in the 1980s, a giant spacecraft stalled in the skies over Johannesburg. 1.8 million of the aliens that were aboard were rescued, and placed in a refugee camp--District 9. Over the next 20 years, District 9 became a teeming shantytown like so many others in the developing world. Although there is evidence that the extraterrestrials represent an advanced civilization, their lives on Earth...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DISSummary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Multi DieSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019